"Therefore, it is obligatory to affirm them for Allah the Exalted in reality, in the manner befitting Him, by evidence from revelation and reason.

The Shaykh :"Therefore — meaning in the context of affirming attributes — it is obligatory to affirm them for Allah in reality, in the manner befitting Him, by evidence from revelation and reason. As for revelation", and it has been mentioned to us previously that the intended meaning of "evidence from revelation" is the Book and the Sunnah. "As for revelation, among it is the saying of Allah the Exalted:

O you who have believed, believe in Allah and His Messenger and the Book that He sent down upon His Messenger and the Scripture which He sent down before. And whoever disbelieves in Allah, His angels, His books, His messengers, and the Last Day has certainly gone far astray.

يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا آمِنُوا بِاللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَالْكِتَابِ الَّذِي نَزَّلَ عَلَى رَسُولِهِ وَالْكِتَابِ الَّذِي أَنْزَلَ مِنْ قَبْلُ وَمَنْ يَكْفُرْ بِاللَّهِ وَمَلائِكَتِهِ وَكُتُبِهِ وَرُسُلِهِ وَالْيَوْمِ الْآخِرِ فَقَدْ ضَلَّ ضَلالا بَعِيداً

[An-Nisa 4:136]

So faith in Allah includes faith in His attributes, and faith in the Book that was sent down to His Messenger (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) includes faith in all the attributes of Allah mentioned in it, and the fact that Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) is His Messenger includes faith in everything he reported about his Sender, who is Allah (Mighty and Majestic)". This is the aspect of indication from the verse. In the verse, there is a difference in expression. He said: So does this verbal distinction necessitate a conceptual distinction? The answer is: Yes. The scholars said: "Nazzala" indicates that the thing descends gradually, as He (Mighty and Majestic) said: , because the angels of the lowest heaven come, then the second, then the third, and so on. And if it is said "anzala," it means all at once. The previous books were sent down all at once. For this reason, the disbelievers argued against the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him and his family) saying: , meaning just as it was sent down before. So Allah the Exalted said: "Likewise," meaning We sent it down in parts. So the evidence from revelation for the obligation of faith in the affirmative attributes is the saying of Allah the Exalted: .